Manifolding apparatus.



A. KRAUTH.

MANIFOLDING APPARATUS.

APPLlcATloN FILED HB. 27. 1913.

LQ. Patented May 8, 1917.

ALBERT Kan-Urn, or naiurnroiv, omo.

MANIFOLDING APPARATUS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, i917.

Application led February 27, 1913. Serial No. 751,045.

T 0 all fui/wm t may Concern.'

Be it linown that l, ALBERT KRAUTII, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Apparatus,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to manifolding machines and in particular to rollor web-holding means.

' The contemplated preferable use of the machine is for issuingpreprinted forms of express company way-bills, issued for each freightshipment with the preprinted form comprised in multiple numbers in acontinuous sheet subdividing the same into definite equal lengths orintervals for consecutive use. One of the sheets contains only a portionof the text form of an original or not a complete duplicate thereof, andin consequence, its width is much less than the remaining` sheetscontained in the machine. All the sheets or strips are simultaneouslyand unitarily advanced so that an entry can be recorded in the properspace or position of registry7 corresponding in all of the sheets.

An object of my invention is to provide a support for rotatably mountinga web of paper between a pair of side frames, comprising a pair ofoppositely disposed spring arms, one thereof directly supporting adiskshaped journaling boss, the second an extension rod in an axialplane with the axis of the opposing disk-shaped journaling boss, withthe free end of said rod provided with a disk-shaped journaling bosscoincidentally opposite the first-named boss, for supporting a web ofpaper considerably less in width than the intervening space between theside frames, with both supports accessible fromthe exterior of themachine for moving the same in a diametrically opposing direction forweb insertion or removal.

Another object of my invention is to provide a multiple number ofcontinuous sheets or strips of paper of relatively different width, eachsheet correspondingly sub-di vided into intervals of equal length, theintervals having' areas corresponding for manifolding registry one uponanother, for producing a partial manifold record or records of anoriginal entry and when threaded within a machine are capable of beingfed or advanced in unity to a point of delivery or discharge from themachine. This is illustrated by assuming that the original sheet is amerchandise sales receipt containing along one marginal edge oppositeeach article the price. This original can be used as a bill or statementfor the purchase while the duplicate or manifold can be used for ashipment bill of lading, with no disclosure of the price of the goods,in this way a single entry is manifolded for various independent usesand purposes, effecting a great saving of time and avoiding error.

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in thedescription of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which The figure represents a central vertical sectionthrough a manifolding machine containing my improvement.

l represents thebase of the machine, 2, 2,

the stationary side frames. 4 represents the writing table, and 5 themargin-frame above the same hingedly mounted to the carbon receptacle 6.

The webs of paper are journaled upon supports substantially as thatshown in a rior patent issued to me, No. 925,351, dated une l5, 1909,for supporting the rolls of a length approximately the interior width ofthe casing, and in general comprise a pair of oppositely disposed springmetal plates, one secured to cach of the side frames, having adisk-shaped journaling boss mounted upon the free end of each springmetal plate. The axes of the bosses are in coincident axial plane, withthe flange of each disk engaging a side of the web, and the boss thereofprojecting into the core of the web.

ln the form shown in the figure, one roll support is constructed asabove described, in which 20 represents a spring metal plate, having adisk-shaped boss 21 supported upon its free end by a pin 22, said pinbeing arranged with a hand hold so as to be accessible from the exteriorof the casing for disengaging the disk-shaped boss from the web core.The opposite side of the frame has a similar spring metal plate 23,provided with an extension rod 24C rigidly secured to the metal plate28, and with a hand hold 25 accessible from the exterior of the frame,so as to withdraw the disk-shaped journaling boss 26 from its engagementwith the web of the paper. This disk-shaped boss may be rigidly securedto the extension rod 24, or journaled thereon, depending upon the gradeof paper of the web.

27 represents an angled extension rod supporting plate secured to thebase of the machine to support the free end of said rod to maintain itsaxis coincident with the axis of the opposing disk-shaped journalingboss,`

This type of web support oifers all the advantages as if the disk-shapedjournaling boss were directly mounted adjacent to its spring metalsupporting plate, and, therefore, provides a means for supporting a webof paper of a width considerably less than the interior width of thecasing, but accessible from the exterior of the casing for web renewal.

A web of manifolding paper is supported in a receptacle 6 disposed in alongitudinal plane with the feed of the paper and secured upon one ofthe side frames, so as to thread the manifolding paper transverselyacross the writing table 4 to the rewinding apparatus or mechanism uponthe opposite side of the casing from that of the carbon receptacle.

The supply web of carbon paper in the carbon receptacle is restrictedfrom va free rotation by means of the tension plate 37 bearin downwardlyupon the periphery of the we as shown.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. An autographic register comprising a pair of oppositely disposedapertured side frames, a spring member secured to one side frameextending radially to its aperture, and provided with a journaling bosson its free end, a spring member on the second side frame extendingradially toward the aperture of the side frame, an extension rod se-Acured to said spring member extended toward the opposing spring memberand accessible from the exterior through the aperture, and a journalingboss upon the free end of said extension rod axially alining with theaforesaid opposing journaling boss.

2. A machine of the nature disclosed combining a pair of oppositelydisposed side frames, a spring metal arm secured to each side frame, onethereof having a disk-shaped journal boss secured to its free end, alateral extension secured to the second arm provided with a disk-shapedjournaling boss in a cojoncident axial plane with said opposing oss.

3. A machine of the nature disclosed combining a pair of oppositelydisposed side frames, a laterally yielding journal on one of said sideframes, a spring metal arm on the opposite frame, a disk-shapedjournaling boss mounted on said arm remotely therefrom, and a rigidbearing slidably supporting the axis of said boss. j

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

ALBERT KRAUTH.

Witnesses:

OLIVER B. KAISER, CLARENCE B. FOSTER.

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